General Discussion

Until recently I have been using a 1gb usb.
Then when I went to upgrade I saw a 120 gb Western Digital external/portale hard drive. Being tha newbie I am, I thought it would act the same as a usb just massive :o)

I really dislike the documents and settings folder. Over years more and more cruft is inside. It`s complex and difficult to clean up.

Is there some common way to redirect any request of an application to write to %appdata% to /programfolder/username?

That way software would be already much more portable and I could delete all files of applications I am no longer using.

Hi,

I am thinking of buying an IronKey and using PortableApps on it. Does anyone know how well they both work together? That is, are there any compatibility problems installing/running PortableApps on the IronKey?

I dunno why, but somehow I'm under the impression that some problems might arise (possibly because of the hardware-based encryption).

Thanks for any help.

Hi,

is it possible to use a portable Application as default-Application inside another portable application?

e.g.
- sumatraPDF as (of course external) pdf-viewer used in portable Firefox
- portable Firefox as the Browser that opens urls from portable Thunderbird
- Notepad++ Portable as the default editor used in winscp-portable
- winmerge in rapidsvn portable

Only to give some use cases. Is there already a way, to do this complete or partly? If not, is anyone else interested in such things, and would it be worth some effort?

Ok i was wondering if i could install and make a start menu icon for portable applications that are not on this site and how i would go about doing that i have tried once but was not able to get it to work properly any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Shawn

[Double post removed by Mod MarkoMLM]

Microsoft missing the cloud with Windows on a USB stick.

Microsoft preps StartKey: A ‘Windows companion’ on a USB stick.

What does everyone think?

I was trying to troubleshoot a plugin problem with FF Portable the other day, and posted on a forum on what I should check (grey bar with red up arrow, menus blank etc). The main respondent just said "why bother doing anything? It's a portable app, just copy out your bookmarks.html, delete the damn thing and reinstall it!" Fair call, and it's what I ended up doing, even though I then had to go through and re-enter all my passwords etc.

I'm not sure but I think we may need to delete the link in this node/post
https://portableapps.com/node/12911
till we have more information.

Tim

is there any applications that arent saved as application because my schools computers arent able to run applications
If so then where do i get them and can i get note pad and pidgin portable

is there any applications that arent saved as application because my schools computers arent able to run applications
If so then where do i get them and can i get note pad and pidgin portable